Re: 9-phoneme IAL (was Re: Chinese-based IAL?)
| From: | Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, February 25, 2001, 21:12 |
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At 10:53 am +0100 25/2/01, daniel andreasson wrote:
>Jörg:
>> > > > Paraanaka : Supu Iti
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>> > Hint: The language is related to Brithenig.
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>Andrew:
>> Hmmm. That makes the most likely alternatives are Kernu
>> or Breathanach. It looks more like Q-Celtic influenced
>> Breathanach to me. This is a trick question because Geoff
>> Eddy is active on Celticonlang, but not on Conlang.
>
>I thought it might be Breathanach, but I thought there
>was a {t} missing ( > paratanaka ), and I had *no* idea
>that it was Geoff Eddy who invented Breathanach. That was
>a tricky one, Jörg! :)
Slightly puzzled - Why is the /E/ in /dZEf/ rendered as /u/ in _Supu_ while
the /E/ in /Edi/ rendered as /i/ in _Iti?
Or is 'Geoff' pronounced differently on each side of the Atlantic?
Just curious.
Ray.
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